John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars’

John Green is one of my favorite young-adult fiction writers. I think I’ve mentioned my fondness for his 2009 novel Paper Towns, which follows a boy’s road trip in search of his childhood best friend.

This month Green’s latest effort, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton Juvenile), arrived in stores. The premise involves a teen with cancer who falls for an attractive, funny and one-legged dude named Augustus.